What’s emerging in Japan six months since the nuclear meltdown at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant is a radioactive zone [>] bigger than that left by the 1945 atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While nature reclaims the 20 kilometer (12 mile) no-go zone, Fukushima’s $3.2 billion-a-year farm industry is being devastated and tourists that hiked the prefecture’s mountains and surfed off its beaches have all but vanished.

JAPAN SHOOTS SELF IN FOOT TRYING TO BUILD OWN NUKES

SUPERPOWER BOMBS SECRET REACTOR IN NORTH-EAST JAPAN

Unexpected results: earthquake and tsunami

Expected cover story: Earthquake! Tsunami! Not Us!!

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.

Venizelos, who holds a midday press conference in Athens today, has announced an additional 20 percent wage cut, on top of 15 percent for the civil service and 25 percent in the wider public sector. Pensions are being reduced 4 percent on average, in addition to previous cuts of 10 percent. A lowering of the tax-free threshold to 5,000 euros will mean higher taxes for all Greeks.

The two most contentious issues are a property tax to be levied via electricity bills, which will provide an annual yield of 1.1 percent of gross domestic product, and plans to put 30,000 public servants into a “reserve” system on reduced pay.

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.

Syria provided our region with a model of peaceful coexistence among the different components of the Syrian people, a model which deserves to be emulated. It opted for secularism to promote its national unity in view of the religious and ethnic diversity of the region to which it belongs, a region that was the cradle of divine religious and the birthplace of human civilization.

Any objective analysis of the events in and around Syria will demonstrate clearly that the purpose of the unjust anti-Syria campaign currently underway is to attack the model of coexistence that has been a source of pride to our people. How can we otherwise explain media provocations, financing and arming religious extremism? What purpose could this serve other than total chaos that would dismember Syria- and consequently adversely affect its neighbors?

What else could this course achieve other than spreading Western hegemony over the countries of the Mediterranean and serving Israel's expansionist interests?

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.